Andrew Henderson on July 27th, 2025:
From the Ottawa Times (December 4, 1869): "We have previously announced that steps were being taken to secure a new organ for the Wesleyan Methodist Church, Metcalfe-St. Mr. Baxter, the conductor of the choir, has been for some time most actively engaged in getting up a subscription to the fund, and we believe he has been assisted by some others. The matter has been followed up until at length the organ is in its place, and will be put in requisition in the services to-morrow. Yesterday afternoon numbers of people went into the church to hear it. It was tried by Mr. Warren, of Montreal, son of the builder of the organ, by Mr. Baxter, and by Miss Holmes, the organist, and gave the highest satisfaction. The width of the case is made less than it might be, in order to adapt it to the capacity of the gallery, but that makes no difference to the power of the organ. Its width is nine feet by six in depth, and fourteen feet in height, finished in fine grained oak, varnished. It has eleven front pipes, five in the centre and three at each side, all in plain gold. The architecture is of chaste design, and harmonizes well with the architecture of the interior of the church. The whole appearance of the instrument as well as its power was very generally admired, and our opinion is that it is quite powerful enough for the building, but we shall be better able to judge to-morrow when the church will be full ... it will be seen by the above specification that the instrument has two octaves of pedals, which is of great value to the organist ... the organ, as we have intimated, was built by Warren, the well known organ builder of Montreal, and its cost is $1,200."
Andrew Henderson on June 12th, 2023:
Referenced in *The Ottawa Citizen* (February 13, 1926) in the remenisences of Mrs. S. Bourne, sometime organist of the church. "Mrs. Bourne tells that the old organ of Dominion Church was a pretty nice instrument. It was a two-manual pipe, and was used for twelve years after the congregation got into its new church home (or twenty years in all). By that time (1888) the congregation had so grown that the people decided to get a new instrument ... the Ottawa organ was sold to the Wesley Church in Toronto."